Have you bought some face masks?

[PeterB]

It's really unlikely that this virus can live on surfaces for any significant amount of time. If it were, all the packages/mail being sent out of China would have infected the entire world by now. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...from-china

[Sarcany]

PeterB wrote:
It's really unlikely that this virus can live on surfaces for any significant amount of time. If it were, all the packages/mail being sent out of China would have infected the entire world by now. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...from-china

I had a Kickstarter shipped from China delayed by 4 weeks. It had tracking and the maker published updates. Sat on a ship for two weeks, then sat on the dock for almost 2 weeks before the USPS picked it up. Then 2 days to deliver it.

The delay was unusual. There was some speculation in the Kickstarter comments that the USPS was taking so long because they were irradiating packages to destroy the virus. I expect that the USPS was just being very inefficient. But with that long a delay, I'm confident that it was perfectly fine to open that package. :::cough:::

[PeterB]

Sarcany wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
It's really unlikely that this virus can live on surfaces for any significant amount of time. If it were, all the packages/mail being sent out of China would have infected the entire world by now. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shot...from-china

I had a Kickstarter shipped from China delayed by 4 weeks. It had tracking and the maker published updates. Sat on a ship for two weeks, then sat on the dock for almost 2 weeks before the USPS picked it up. Then 2 days to deliver it.

The delay was unusual. There was some speculation in the Kickstarter comments that the USPS was taking so long because they were irradiating packages to destroy the virus. I expect that the USPS was just being very inefficient. But with that long a delay, I'm confident that it was perfectly fine to open that package. :::cough:::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqCVB0tOSVQ&list=RDhqCVB0tOSVQ&start_radio=1&t=0

(just kidding, you'll be fine)

[rgG]

I hope everyone else wears a mask and protects me.
Since the masks are one use only, except for the refillable cartridge ones that make you look like a Mad Max extra, you would have to have a lot of them to do much good.
Where I work, there would be virtually no way I could protect myself, to any great degree.
Best I can do is try and not get too close to people and to not touch my eyes and nose as much. Extra hand washing would be good, too, but hard to run to a sink every 5 minutes.

[Sarcany]

rgG wrote: Extra hand washing would be good, too, but hard to run to a sink every 5 minutes.

Maybe it's time to carry some hand sanitizer?

[dk62]

How about goggles?

[decay]

How about this one?

https://www.amazon.com/huansi-Activated-...B084ZP31X8

[decay]

Plague Doctor mask, anyone?

[norse]

jdc wrote:
[quote=decay]

Wife spent 2 years working in bio-terrorism department for the County, and 15 years before that in infectious diseases/stds (hiv/aids/hep c) etc.

Shes "meh" on the whole thing so far.

Same here. It's not any worse than the common flu.

[NewtonMP2100]

....but it has killed close to 3,000 people.....